Urban India / edited by Giri Raj Gupta

Urban India represents an enormous section of population over 162 million people out of a total of 684 million. This volume deals with issues of human social organization in India's urban environment in relation to forces of industrialization, westernization and modernization, including the impact of the colonial past.

While it is not the first to deal with urbanization, this book provides grounded generalizations and analyses of the major components of social organization structure, growth, culture, migration, slums and various forms of mobility and interaction.

The sixteen articles in this volume contributed by sociologists, anthropologists and historians seek to offer fresh insights into the age old problems of urban social environment. They strive to eliminate commonly held fallacies and advance plausible explanations to stimulate the minds of interested readers, researchers and policy makers.

This collection also offers guidelines for the formulation an improvement of development plans and is indispensable for social scientists, development planners, administrators, bankers, legislators and policy makers, alike.